Kawasaki Heavy Industries has just unveiled one of the wildest concept vehicles to date: the Corleo, a two-seater, four-legged robot that you control using body movements. Equipped with AI vision, it can navigate challenging terrain with ease. Sure, you could stick with a regular horse—but let’s face it, they can be unpredictable, and there’s the […]
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Stimming, short for “self-stimulatory behavior,” is a self-soothing activity often observed in autistic individuals. It includes repetitive movements, sounds, or actions and is typically classified in medical literature under “rigid and repetitive behavior.” This perspective often portrays stimming negatively, leading health professionals, teachers, and even parents to try to prevent it. However, stimming is a
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Researchers from California have created an AI-driven system that enables paralyzed individuals to speak naturally in real time, using their own voices. The innovative technology developed by teams from the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of California, San Francisco, utilizes brain-computer interfaces that can measure neural activity, combined with AI that learns to
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One of the most extensively studied space rocks has recently surprised scientists once again. The “mudball meteorite” Aguas Zarcas, which spent two million years in orbit without colliding with any other objects (or sustaining any damage if it did), challenges the conventional view of the “fragile” carbonaceous chondrite class to which it belongs. Public Fascination
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A newly discovered state of matter has emerged within a previously identified exotic phase in a magnetic compound. In 2016, physicists Weiguo Yin, Christopher Roth, and Alexei Tsvelik from Brookhaven National Laboratory identified a unique “half-fire, half-ice” spin-state phase in Sr₃CuIrO₆, a compound of strontium, copper, iridium, and oxygen. Now, they have uncovered its opposite—a
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Scientists claim to have developed the world’s smallest untethered flying robot, using a unique approach to its design. To minimize size and weight, they moved the robot’s power and control systems out of its sub-centimeter-wide body. Prof. Liwei Lin and his team at the University of California, Berkeley, are developing the robot, which measures just
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Chewing gum releases hundreds of plastic fragments into the mouth, researchers found, adding to concerns about microplastic exposure. A study analyzed saliva after chewing various gum brands, revealing each gram released around 100 microplastic fragments—some over 600. Frequent chewers could ingest up to 30,000 microplastics annually. However, lead researcher Sanjay Mohanty emphasized that chewing gum
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If you ever find yourself in the time of dinosaurs, avoid touching flowers—they might be parasitic wasps in disguise. A study of wasps trapped in amber reveals that these insects ensnared hosts for their larvae using a Venus flytrap-like appendage.
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While most people imagine robots as complex electronic devices, made up of several parts that need to be assembled in factories, a new experimental non-electronic robot has been designed to be 3D-printed in one single piece and is powered entirely by air. The soft-bodied robot was developed by postdoctoral scholar Yichen Zhai and his team,
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Researchers harness tiny voltage from Earth’s rotation, revealing a potential new energy source. The foundation for this research dates back to 2016 when Princeton astrophysicist Christopher Chyba and JPL planetary scientist Kevin Hand initially argued that such energy generation was impossible. However, as they revisited their own conclusions, they began to question the assumptions underlying
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